The Charlatan's Lament letra

At long weary last
this game is over
The sins of the past
have fled from my shoulder
The sleep that I need
is all I ask
In thought and in deed
I have burned the mask
Here I am...
Here I am...

Enchantment is broken
I merge with the crowd
Oaths have been spoken
inside and out loud
Emerging from under
notions of god
In tears
and in wonder
I venture abroad
Here I am...
Here I am...

Can you walk a smithereen
Can you walk a smithereen
closer to me
Could you love a thimbleful
Could you love a thimbleful
harder for me

Encountered a loathly hag
Blood on the snow
She said "I've a burden to drag
and leagues to go"
I left her down by the seaside
in someone's hall
By dawn's empty light I cried
for no one at all
Here I am...
Here I am...

Can you walk a smithereen
Can you walk a smithereen
closer to me
Could you love a thimbleful
Could you love a thimbleful
harder for me

I swing between tears and wonder
I swing between tears and wonder
I swing between tears and wonder
I swing between tears and wonder
tears and wonder !

Can you walk a smithereen
Can you walk a smithereen
closer to me
Could you love a thimbleful
Could you love a thimbleful
harder for me
Harder for me

The Waterboys - Letras

• A Boy In Black Leather
• A Girl Called Johnny
• A Golden Age
• A Home In The Meadow
• A Life Of Sundays
• A Man Is In Love
• A Pagan Place
• A Rock In a Weary Land
• A Song For The Life
• Ahead Down The Highway
• Ain't No Words For The Things I'm Feeling
• All My Way Ireland
• All The Boys Love Carrie
• All The Things She Gave Me
• Always Dancing, Never Getting Tired
• Anatomy Of a Love Affair
• And a Bang On The Ear
• And The Healing Has Begun
• Another Kind Of Circus
• Barely Out of Teenage
• Be My Enemy
• Beatles' Medley
• Because The Night
• Behold The Sea
• Big Lover
• Bigger Picture
• Billy Sparks
• Bleecker Street
• Blowing In The Wind
• Blues For Your Baby
• Blues Is My Business
• Born to Be Together
• Bring 'em All In
• Buckets Of Rain
• Building the City of Light
• Burlington Bertie & Accrington Stanley
• Bury My Heart
• Calling Back My Spirit
• Careful With That Melletron, Eugene
• Cathy
• Church Not Made With Hands
• City Full Of Ghosts (Dublin)
• Come Live With Me
• Coming In To Harbour
• Corn Circles
• Crash Of Angel Wings
• Crown
• Custer's Blues
• Dancing Barefoot
• Dark Man Of My Dreams
• Death Is Not The End
• December
• Don't Bang The Drum
• Down Through The Dark Streets
• Drunken Head Blues
• Dumbing Down The World
• E.b.o.l.
• Edinburgh Castle
• Ever To Be Near Ye
• Everlasting Arms
• Every Breath Is Yours
• Everybody Takes A Tumble
• Experience Week Song
• Father
• Fisherman's Blues
• Forever Young
• Further Up, Further In
• Gala
• Girl From The North Country
• Glastonbury Song
• Going Back To Glasters
• Going Back To Love
• Going To Paris
• Good Man Gone
• Good News
• Gulf Crisis Lullaby
• Has Anybody Here Seen Hank
• Heaven Gets Closer Every Day
• Higher Bound
• Higher In Time
• His Word Is Not His Bond
• How Long Will I Love You?
• How Many Songs Till I Get Home ?
• I Ain't Gonna Work on Maggie's Farm No More
• I Know She's In The Building
• I Will Not Follow
• I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
• I'll Meet You In Heaven Again
• I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
• I've Been In The Storm For You
• I've Lived Here Before
• In Search Of a Rose
• Iona Song
• Is She Conscious
• Isis
• Islandman
• It Should Have Been You
• It's All Gone
• It's Gonna Rain
• Karma
• Killing My Heart
• King Electric
• King Of London
• Kiss The Wind
• Learning To Love Him
• Let It Happen
• License To Kill
• Lonesome Old Wind
• Long Strange Golden Road
• Long Way To The Light
• Lost Highway
• Love & Death
• Love Anyway
• Love That Kills
• Lucky Day/Bad Advice
• Malediction
• Man On The Mountain
• Manifesto
• Martin Decent
• Medicine Bow
• Medicine Jack
• Meet Me At The Station
• Mister Customs Man
• Mister Fox
• Mister Powers (24 hours in Chicago)
• Mother Cluny
• My Beautiful Guide
• My Boat Struck Something Deep
• My Dark Side
• My Love Is My Rock In The Weary Land
• My Morag
• Nectar (7 Days)
• Nobody 'cept You
• Oh Shenandoah
• Old England
• On My Way To Heaven
• On My Way To The Big Light
• One Of Many Rescuers
• One Sweet Step At A Time
• Only Heroes Live Forever
• Open
• Out Of Control
• Peace Of Iona
• Personal
• Preparing To Fly
• Prince Medley
• Purple Rain
• Questions
• Rags
• Rare, Precious And Gone
• Ready For the Monkeyhouse
• Red Army Blues
• Ribbon Of Steel
• Room To Roam
• Sad Procession
• Saints And Angels
• Savage Earth Heart
• Seaweed Shovelling Song
• Seek The Light
• Send Him Down To Waco
• Sensitive Children
• She Is So Beautiful
• She's All That I Need
• Since I Found My School
• Some of my Best Friends are Trains
• Somebody Might Wave Back
• Something Fantastic
• Something That Is Gone
• Song From The End Of The World
• Song Of The Mermaid
• Song Of The Open Road
• Spirit
• Spiritual City
• Spring Comes To Spiddal
• Strange Arrangement
• Strange Boat
• Stranger To Me
• Strawberry Man
• Suffer
• Sunny Sailor Boy
• Sunrising
• Sweet Thing
• Sympathy For David Icke
• Tenderfootin'
• That's Not Enough
• The Big Music
• The Charlatan's Lament
• The Christ In You
• The Earth Only Endures
• The Girl In The Swing
• The Ladder
• The Late Train To Heaven
• The Lion Of Love
• The Madness Is Here Again
• The New Life
• The Pan Within
• The Raggle Taggle Gypsy
• The Return Of Jimi Hendrix
• The Return Of Pan
• The Star & The Sea
• The Stolen Child
• The Three Day Man
• The Thrill Is Gone
• The Trip To Tipp
• The Twa' Recruitin' Sergeants
• The Ways Of Men
• The Wayward Wind
• The Whole Of The Moon
• The Wind In The Wires
• This Is The Sea
• This Land Is Your Land
• This Light Is For The World
• Time, Space And The Brides Bed
• Too Close To Heaven
• Too Hot For Clean Head
• Trumpets
• Two Great Waves
• Universal Hall
• Upon The Wind And Waves
• We Are Jonah
• We Will Not Be Lovers
• What Do You Want Me To Do ?
• When Will We Be Married
• When Ye Go Away
• Where Are You Now When I Need You?
• Where Do You Want The Boombox, Buddy?
• Why Look At The Moon
• Will The Circle Be Unbroken
• Winter Winter
• Wonderful Disguise
• Wonders Of Lewis
• World Party
• You Can't Always Get What You Wantz
• You In The Sky